Breaching Daylight

Chapter 3 (IV). Small Reunion

Brock Palomino | 11:27pm | Hotel's Beach-Side

I start crawling onto the beach, coughing from all the water I consumed after the boat incident. I finally make it to a reasonable distance inland and just I lay on my back from exhaustion. I stare up in the sky, the stars seem to be missing from the sky, but the moon was lighting the whole world up.

I need to find the others.

I slowly, but steadily position myself facing towards the hotel. I push myself up using both of my arms and I finally stand up. I look around, all I could see were blown umbrellas and the hotel, which surprisingly still had power.

I hug myself due to the cold water and the strong winds.

Maybe I should dry myself first.

As I make my way over to the hotel, I hear my name being called out. I turn around and I could see Elizabeth and Alex running towards me.

"Don't go in there!" Elizabeth finally catches up to me as she takes a few deep breaths.

"Wait? Why are you guys outside?" I ask as Alex catches up as well.

"There's something in there! I don't know what it is, but it's not human!" Elizabeth replies.

"She's right, I was getting chased by one of them," Alex chimes in, "I l-lost Abby by one of them."

Fuck, I feel bad now.

"How about the cloak people? And where are the others?" I ask out of curiosity and concern.

"Sophia was captured with me, but she's missing," Alex explains, "I think the others were captured."

"I think I heard someone inside the building, but there's also other things in there as well," Elizabeth informs me.

"What happened with your boat? We saw a mini explosion in the water," Alex asks.

"Layla, she fucking turned on us," I state quietly.

"What?" Elizabeth finally speaks up.

"She killed Andrew and made us overturn the boat."

"OH!" Alex mentions, "You wouldn't believe who is alive-"

A car engine roars in the distance as all three of us face the vehicle approaching us.

"ELIZABETH! BROCK AND ALEX!" Lacie shouts from the car.

The car stops abruptly in front of us. From the car Wayde, Sophia, Lacie and James hop out of the car.

"You guys are alive!?" James comes in for me, "Holy shit guys!"

However my attention was at Wayde who was dressed like one of the cloak people. "Why are you dressed like that?" I ask suspiciously.

Wayde looks down and then at me and lets out a sigh. "I am the cloak people who attacked you before.

I was already charging at him when he said he was one of those stupid cloak people.

I try to throw a few punches, but James and Sophia grab my arms.

"STOP! It's no good fighting now!" Lacie yells, "We have bigger problems on our plate right now."

"I'm sorry guys," Wayde says apologetically, "It was meant to be a prank for the karma you do too Mia, I didn't think this prank would lead to this."

"Shut up!" Alex shouts, "You have no right to speak to us after what you made us go through!"

"Like I said, we've got more problems," Lacie explains, "There's a fire in the forest-"

"Ah shit, that was me," Alex says, "I was trying to get away from Mia."

"MIA?!" Basically all of us said.

"Wait you guys didn't know?" Alex questions, "Didn't Wayde tell you?"

We all stare at Wayde, "I didn't think the time was appropriate after Hannah died."

"Wait? Where's Andrew?" Sophia asks as she looks around.

Andrew!?

"What do you mean-" I saw a blinding light flash in my eye, my peripheral vision gazing at a blade coming down at me.

I try to block it, but my hand slices through the blade. I watch as my hand falls onto the ground, along with my knees, blood and crying of agony.

I could see Andrew smiling at me.

That fucking smile as I close my eyes to become unconscious.